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Legal
Documentation Copyright
Software License Agreement
Legal Use Only
Intellectual Properties
Data Collection
Software Upgrade
Limited Warranty
Remedy for Breach of Warranty
Getting Started with Genius Vision VMS
YOUTUBE Tutorial
Installation Types
System Initialization
Windows 7 and Hidden Tray Icon
Login for the first time
Minimum Configuration
Other Useful Tips
Console overview
GUI Overview
1 Layout control
2 System control
3 User tree
4 System briefcase viewer
5 Pattern tab control
6 Toolbar
8 Player
Player (Multi-Function-Display) Capabilities
Matrix Mode
Hybrid Layout
Using Online License Authorization
Concepts
Bring up License Manager
Windows 7 and Hidden Tray Icon
License Manager - Install package online
Package Types
Managing Installed License
Backup/Restore License
Starting the service
Use the Tray Icon
Alternative Way to Activate NVR
Option 1: Start by “net” command
Option 2: Start by Windows Service Manager console
Part I: Configuration
Setup for Multi-monitor
Consoles and Profiles
Multi-monitor
Configuring Video Storage
GUI Overview
Storage Space Parameters
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Adding Cameras by Finding in Local Network
Missing Cameras
Unsupported Cameras
Adding a channel
Adding a channel
Parameters
Adding RTSP camera
Instructions
Adding RTSP camera (Legacy)
Instructions
How to deal with non-standard RTSP port?
Adding HTTP M-JPEG camera
Instructions
Setting Video Parameters
GUI overview
Concepts of configuration set
Schedule configuration
GUI overview
Schedule Types
Weekly (Graphic) Schedule Configuration
Scheduled Video Configuration
Permission control overview
Concepts
Permission Types
Adding a user
GUI overview
Adding a group
GUI overview
Creating Maps
Create New Map
GUI overview
Toolbar Functions
Adding Items
Basic Operations of Objects
Reset aspect ratio
Fit original size
Arrange
Set orientation
Lock object
Properties
Remove object
Mouse operations
Special operations
Channel operation
IO port
External Maps
Create New Map
Toolbar Functions
Basic Operations - Zoom In
Change Map Type
Adding Items
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Basic Operations of Objects
Special operations
Trigger Policy
Adding New Trigger Policy
Input Configuration
Output Configuration
Channel trigger
Schedule trigger
System trigger
Channel control
Email
Snapshot (Email)
FTP
Snapshot (FTP)
Trigger policy logics
Central Management Station (CMS) Introduction
Overview
How-tos
How to add a NVR connection?
How to view live and playback video in CMS system?
How to use map on the CMS system?
How to use integrated security, that synchronizes account information on all servers?
Do I need additional license to use CMS?
Can I connect to CMS server from a remote location?
Do I need a special client or server program to enable use CMS??
Can I connect to NVR of other types or vendors?
How to configure user accounts in CMS?
Can I connect to two NVRs that contains channels with the same name?
Can I connect to yet another CMS (nestable CMS configuration)?
Does the network traffic of the child NVR go through the primary NVR server?
How to configure child NVR channels?
What are the credentials used for a client to login to child NVR servers?
How should I configure my child NVRs if I want to connect from public Internet?
What are the benefits of having a primary NVR server?
Mobile Phone Video Streaming (3GPP)
Overview
How-tos
Is the 3G video streaming default enabled?
How to enable 3G video streaming?
Why can't I see 3G video streaming?
Unsupported Mobile Devices
How to change default web server port number?
What are the frame-rate or image size of the 3G streaming video? Can they be changed?
Part II: Operation
Viewing live video
GUI Overview
Digital PTZ
Digital Pan-Tilt-Zoom
Rendering audio
GUI Overview
Audio Icon Explained
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Viewing playback video
Concept
Console toolbar
Using playback timeline
Overview
Using timeline
Basic operations
Playback
Timeline modes
Synchronized Playback
Enable synchronized playback
Synchronized Playback Tab
PTZ (Mechanical)
Basic operation
Presets
Patrol
Building user tree
Add/edit folders
Add/edit tree items
Taking snapshot
Managing layout pages
Overview
Add a new page
Editing pages
Tour
Design tour phases
Activating/stopping tour
Configuring tour interval
Storage report
GUI overview
Event viewing
Data size / data rate
Resetting
Intelligent Video Report
Event Search
Recording Gap Search
Alarm Dialog
GUI Overview
Concept
Open Dialog
Alarm Types
Alarm State
Post Comment
User calculator
Storage Calculator
Optics Calculator
Sensor size
Horizontal coverage
Resolving power
Diagram Explained
Viewing logs
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GUI Overview
Console setting
GUI overview
Display Settings
Aspect Mode
Processor Accelerating
Compatible mode
Snapshot/Export Settings
Miscellaneous
Transparent context menu
Reset pattern set on startup
Tour Delay
Map
Show map object tag
Group neighboring channels
Alarm
Alarm Sound
Switch to 1x1 on alarm
Exporting footage
Using timeline
Using Storage Report
The dialog
Hotkeys
Enable hotkeys
Basic operations
PTZ operations
Remote live viewing
Synopsis
Configuring web server
Attention: Used TCP Ports
Broadcasting integration
Memory Watchdog
Memory Watchdog Overview
IO Port
GUI Overview
Control
IO Ports in Maps
Player Control Panel
Concept
“Play Control” Buttons Explained
“PTZ Control” Buttons Explained
“Editing Regions” Explained
Combobox Explained
Buttons Explained
Pattern-save Functions
Save pattern templates and pattern sets
Pattern Set
Player
Title
Play state indicator
OSD
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Timebar
Status indicator
Part III: Intelligent Video and Advanced Topics
Activating Intelligent Detection
Activating/Deactivating Detection
Region Configuration
Region Configuration (Legacy)
Basics of region configuration
Function Object
Overview
Creating Function Objects
Define Regions
Intelligent Detection Basic Knowledge
Motion Detection
Definition
Configuration
Parameters of S-Motion
Threshold
Hysteresis
TamperDetect
Object Tracking
Definition
Configuration
Parameters (Object Detection)
Method
Adaptative
Sensitivity
AutoReset
BufferMode
Fps
TrackDuration
TripwireAlarm
Predict
Filter
NormalizeHist
ShiftHist
Parameters (Missing/Foreign)
TimeMissing
TimeForeign
Distributed Video Analytics
Overview and Rationale
Video Analytics
Detect by Full-function Player
Detect by Matrix Viewer
Detect by Server
Video Analytics Policy
Smart Video Search
Using Panoramic Camera
Enable 360 Panorama
Converting Video to JPEG Stream
Concept
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Introduction
Enable JPEG Streaming
Single JPEG
Multiple View
Embed Video In Web Page
System Safe Mode
Overview
“Safe Mode” function
Enabling “Safe Mode”
Availability
Backup/Restore License
Overview
Export (Backup)
Import (Restore)
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Legal
Documentation Copyright
This material, including but not limited to all text and graphics, is a copyrighted material of Genius
Vision Inc. You should be properly authorized in order to redistribute any part of the material.
The "Software" or "SDK" are proprietary properties of "Genius Vision Inc." It is a violation of
international copyright law to redistribute or reverse-engineer the software without explicit permission
from Genius Vision Inc. We reserve all rights to the software except for the online evaluation
demonstration purpose.
Intellectual Properties
The "Software" and all related materials are proprietary properties of Genius Vision Inc. It is a
violation of international copyright law to redistribute without authorization, reverse-engineer the
software, modify the software, or circumvent copy-protection mechanisms.
Data Collection
You understand and consent that the client software that is installed to your computer may collect
non-personally-identifiable information and transmit over the network for the purpose of monitoring
system health status and enforcing licensing policies. These information includes, but not limited to,
IP address, hardware configuration, OS patches/versions, OS process list, and version of software
installed.
Software Upgrade
You understand that Genius Vision reserve the right to force all free software users to upgrade their
software version, in case there is a flaw found later. In this case, users who choose not to upgrade
may receive license revocation error.
Limited Warranty
Genius Vision develops commercial software in the hope that it will be useful. If you follow the
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instructions and the software is properly licensed, the software should perform substantially as
described in the Genius Vision materials that you receive in or with the software.
However, Genius Vision do not guarantee the "Software" itself is free of defects or vulnerabilities.
Genius Vision gives no other express warranties, guarantees or conditions. Where allowed by the
laws, Genius Vision excludes implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose
and non-infringement. If the laws give you any implied warranties, guarantees or conditions, despite
this exclusion, your remedies are described in the Remedy for Breach of Warranty of this contract, to
the extent permitted by the laws.
It is particularly important that you understand: it is your sole responsibility to evaluate and ensure its
fitness before you put the "Software" into serious use.
If you would not agree to the terms, please do not use the software.
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YOUTUBE Tutorial
The best way to getting started is to watch our YOUTUBE tutorial video.
Installation Types
You will be given choice when installing the software, as depicted in following picture:
Options explained:
● Full installation: Install both NVR recording engine (the server) and client console on your
computer. This will require a valid license.
● NVR/CMS Remote client only: Only install client console on your computer. The software
installed with this option only equips you with the capability to connect to a NVR server on
remote computer, it cannot work alone.
NVR footage player will be installed for both options. You will be able to play NVR exported footage
after installation.
System Initialization
The installer will install a Windows service. You can manage it with our organizer, a triangle in
Windows task-bar. When the triangle is green, you are good to go.
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In Windows 7, tray icon is hidden by default. You have to click the white triangle to access hidden
icons.
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To make the hidden icon always visible, click “Customize...” and set the icon to “Show icon and
notifications”.Invoke the console to interact with the server.
Minimum Configuration
The first thing you need to do is configuring storage. All available drives are listed automatically. Just
enable the drive you want to use to store recorded data. You may want to change "MaxSize_GB" if
the drive is not dedicated to recording. Everything else should be left untouched.
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The second to do is adding a camera. Channel name is an unique identification associated with
recorded data and events. It can't be changed in the future so name it carefully. Put additional
information in description instead. Select driver DirectShow for webcam. Check "unconditional
recording" for 24x7 recording.
Okay. Now the setup is done and the server is recording. The server is running as long as the PC is
on, even before any user logged in Windows.
Check our website and YouTube channel to learn more about schedule recording, trigger policy,
intelligent video, motion detection, storage report, 3GPP streaming, and many advanced functions.
http://geniusvision.net
http://www.youtube.com/user/cybercying#p/u
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Cameras, maps, and some objects can be dragged and dropped. Experiment with various operations
with mouse drag and drop.
Use matrix mode for better performance. Decoding massive channels with massive resolution
consumes a lot of computing power. Use simplified player (no OSD, no aspect control, no zoom, no
playback, no audio) for better performance.
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Enable intelligent video analytic on server in camera config. You don't want to do this if the server
is not dedicated to surveillance. To analyze video, the engine must decode it first so it consumes fair
amount of computing power.
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Console overview
GUI Overview
1 Layout control
Matrix mode.
See also
● Matrix Mode
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Make all players show live.
2 System control
Operation mode
● Live
● Playback
● SyncPlay
Live Mode Config System, Config Console - See also Console setting
Config Storage - See also Configuring Video Storage
New Objects - Add a new channel, user, group, map..., etc.
See also
● Adding a channel
● Adding a user
● Adding a group
● Creating Maps
● Trigger Policy
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3 User tree
User can manage objects by creating folders and drag&drop to change the hierarchy and the order.
Folders can also be renamed. Remind that the tree is global and local changes effect all remote
"Genius Vision NVR" connected.
The node "All channels" are predefined and cannot be modified. Dragging a channel in "All channels"
to a user-created folder creates its representatives which can be operated like the original channel
item. But deleting a representative doesn't remove the channel from the system.
See Also
● Building user tree
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A system briefcase viewer let the users browse system objects like userlogs, channels, maps, users,..
etc. There are three components in system briefcase viewer; the filter, the header, and the list. The
filter controls what types of items to be displayed. The header can be clicked to sort the items by
different columns and different order. Right-click on different types of objects invokes their
corresponding context menus. Items may also be dragged into players. Drag&drop behavior depends
on the destined player state and the item type.
See Also
● Viewing logs
User can create and rename tabs in pattern tab control. Each pattern tab has its own layout and state.
See Also
● Managing layout pages
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6 Toolbar
Pause video
Step backward/forward
Fast backward/forward
Playback backward/forward
Manual recording
Digital zoom in
Take snapshot
Toggle Timebar
Synchronize all players. When the button is sinked, playback control of all players
are synchronized.
See Also
● Synchronized playback
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8 Player
There are three components in the payer; status bar, display, and toolbar. Status bar shows the title
of the channel attached and its states. The three indicators on the top-right shows if the channel is
recording(red), accessing recorded data(yellow), live video(green), or alarm. The toolbar is used to
control the player.
See Also
● Player
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Player identifier Can play live & PB? Can view maps? Can view Ext. Map?
P1.1 Yes Yes Yes
P1.2 Yes Yes No
P1.3 Yes Yes No
P1.4 Yes Yes No
P1.5 ... P1.25 Yes No No
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Matrix Mode
Matrix mode uses layout that incorporates simplified player. There are 2 types of player in Genius
Vision NVR: full player and simple player. They can be easily distinguished by the caption (title).
OSD Yes No
Map Yes No
Playback Yes No
Hybrid Layout
Hybrid layouts have one or few full players with more simple players. It’s useful to balance
functionality and performance for system with limited processing power.
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Concepts
Online license authorization offers software publisher a more flexible way to sell license and to
eliminate additional logistic cost. In NVR system, it even gives the flexibility to license software in per-
single-channel basis. Therefore it's more cost-effective to the customers.
It is generally recommended unless situation is required, one should avoid using offline license and
choose the online one. Even if offline scenario is required, one should start from using online license.
After a period of stable running, one can always convert online license directly to offline ones through
the process of committing.
To generate effective license (called authorization code, or auth. code), one need two elements
● Request code: This code contains information about target computer, number of channels
and type of product requested.
● Purchase code: This is the code that you paid money for. (Giving away this code is same as
giving away your money. So you need to keep it in secret.)
In online environment, the request code is transparent (invisible) to users. You only need to input
purchase code in the GUI to get authorized. However, in some special environment, where Internet
access is not possible, we also offer an offline way to activate license. In this scenario, you must
generate a request file (which contains encrypted request code), copy it to a portable storage device,
and bring it to a computer where Internet access is available. You then connect to a vendor-provided
URL (http://geniusvision.net/offline ) to upload the request file, and enter purchase code. The web-
page will then generate authorization code in a file. This auth. code is generated specific for the
computer on which the program generated the provided request file. It will not work on other
computers. You need to copy this auth. code file back to the target computer and then import it.
Please note, however, license activated in this manner implies it's an offline license and therefore
cannot be transferred to another computer.
In addition to the types of license, there are some attributes associated with a specific license.
Depending on actual business terms, a license might have a number of following properties:
● Forced online license: If a license has this attribute, it cannot be committed to computer. If
you try to do that, it will fail (OfflineInstallForbidden). This is needed in some business terms to
enforce certain licensing policies.
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● Limited (Expirable) license: A license may subject to expire after certain date (either demo
license or not). This kind of license implies "forced online license".
● Demo/Evaluation: If a license has this attribute, the program will display an evaluation notice
stating that "using the software in production environment of any kind is strictly prohibited".
This is needed for customers who want to try the software before paying. The function of the
program is, however, almost same as the formal one. Demo version implies "forced online
license" and "limited license" (the reverse is not true). A demo license can be transparently
converted to formal one by paying fees to clear the demo flag on the server. The user only
needs to restart the NVR engine to obtain formal license automatically.
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In Windows 7, tray icon is hidden by default. You have to click the white triangle to access hidden
icons.
To make the hidden icon always visible, click “Customize...” and set the icon to “Show icon and
notifications”.
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After clicking "Next", following screen will appear. You need to enter purchase code, package, and
desired quantity. Please note the desired quantity must not exceed the remaining purchased quantity.
If you check the "Commit to current computer" box, this will became an offline license (unless the
licensing terms doesn't allow that). You can always convert an online license to an offline one later.
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Package Types
There are 3 types of packages, when selecting license to install:
● "pro": This means the NVR Professional edition.
● "ipr": This means the NVR Intelligent edition.
● “pano”: This means the NVR Panorama edition.
The prices for different packages are different. You can mix "pro", "ipr", and “pano” packages freely
on the same computer.
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If you want to commit a online license to current computer, right-click on that license and bring up a
context menu. Select "Commit..." to perform the commit operation. You'll need Internet connection to
perform this operation.
Backup/Restore License
Sometimes if the whole system is overwritten for some reason (reinstallation of the OS) or
accidentally purges the entire software installation, the license information could be gone
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permanently. To prevent this from happening, you need to backup the license and restore it when
needed.
Note: that you can only restore license to the same system (OS+computer hardware). Restoring to
different system will render the license useless.
See also
● Backup/Restore License
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In production environment, you should configure your NVR as "Auto-start", so it will automatically
start on system startup, and it will also automatically restart on abnormal shutdown.
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A dialog will appear. Now enter "net start GvActiveX" and press ENTER.
Note: Sometimes the GUI of the service manager is not updated so you will be unable to select the
"Start" from context menu. In this case, press F5 to refresh the GUI.
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Part I: Configuration
The section of manual will show you how to configure NVR system.
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Setup for Multi-monitor
IP address of the remote server must be specified before connecting. If the server and console is on
the same computer, enter 127.0.0.1 in IP address.
Click Make Shortcut... button and a shortcut will be created in windows desktop. Simply double click
on the shortcut and the console with this profile will be invoked. Rename the shortcut or it may be
overwrited next time a shortcut is created.
Multi-monitor
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The following demostrates how to setup GV NVR for multi-monitor. The example uses 3 monitors but
this can be applied to more or less monitors as well.
1. Set the multi-monitor to Extended mode in Windows. This is not a requirement but it's
recommended for easier setup and more intuitive operations. In extended mode, multi-monitor
act as a single desktop. Just navigate the mouse cursor in different monitors to access them.
For more information, refer to the manual provided by video card vendor.
2. Create 3 shortcuts with different profiles. They may connect to the same NVR server or
different ones. Or they may connect to local host using 127.0.0.1 as IP address.
1. Invoke the consoles using the shortcuts. There will be 3 windows. Move them to the monitors
you want to place in and change the layout. To move among different monitors, simply move
the mouse to the left/right edge of the monitor.
2. For best viewing experience, close menu of some consoles by pressing F10 on keyboard.
3. Next time the shortcuts are clicked, the consoles will be invoked as their last states and
layouts. The shortcuts can also be placed in the Startup of Windows Start Menu.
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Configuring Video Storage
GUI Overview
Click on the "Config Storage". Following dialog box will appear. If no directories has been enabled,
this dialog will appear automatically after login.
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Click “Find Cameras” in the main console and a dialog will be invoked listing found cameras. You
may have to wait for few seconds before NVR can find cameras. You can click “Scan” to reset the
dialog and find again.
To add the camera in the NVR system, double click on the channel name (CH_001, NVR_001...). It
will be added with auto-assigned channel name. If you want to change the channel name, select an
entry and click “Rename”.
Missing Cameras
● Camera that is in different network segment cannot be find. For example, if IP address of NVR
is 192.168.0.10 and that of the camera is 192.168.2.2
● Camera that doesn’t support UPnP or the function is not enabled cannot be found. You will
need to add it manually. (See also: Adding a channel)
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Unsupported Cameras
For supported cameras, driver and username/password (if not changed out of box) will be configured
automatically. Other cameras will be found as RTSPCam. User have to configure URL described in
camera document to receive video streaming. Please refer to Adding RTSP camera.
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Adding a channel
Adding a channel
Right-click on the empty area of the user tree panel, and then click "New Channel…"
This is an integrated dialog with everything about channel configuration; camera setup, video setup,
schedule recording setup, PTZ setup. Navigate through the tree nodes to change the items to be
configured.
Note: "Channel name" is an important signature of a channel and therefore cannot be changed after
it's created. Nor can it be duplicated with other channels. You should choose the channel name
carefully, as it associates all configuration and storage information with that channel. If you expect a
more user-friendly description, you can use the "Description" field for the purpose.
Parameters
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● IP Address: IP address of the network camera
● Port: The TCP/IP port number of the network camera
● Channel: The channel number of the network camera. This value may apply if a single video
server has multiple channels.
● Unconditional Recording: Check this box, if you wish the NVR to start recording immediately.
To configure other types of recording, you need to perform additional operations after channel
creation.
● Disabled: Temporarily disable the channel. NVR will not access any channel with this box
checked. You can always enable it at later time.
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Instructions
Let's assume you have a RTSP video source as follows:
rtsp://192.168.0.55/mpeg4
In this example, you need to perform following configuration steps in Camera Setup
1. Select RTSPCam as driver
2. Enter correct IP address (Port is not related RTSP port)
If you need HTTP transport, use “http://” URL scheme in the dialog.
Note: HTTP transport is one of RTSP underlying transport methods. This is not the same as HTTP
camera.
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If your frame packet is extraordinarily large, you may needs this step to increase RTP buffer size (as
follows):
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Adding RTSP camera (Legacy)
Note: this section only applies to software version b60 or older. Camera setup dialog GUI has been
updated since b70. Updated content please refer to Adding RTSP camera.
Instructions
Let's assume you have a RTSP video source as follows:
rtsp://192.168.0.55/mpeg4
In this example, you need to perform following configuration steps in Camera Setup
3. Select RTSPCam as driver
4. Enter correct IP address (Port is not related RTSP port)
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If your frame packet is extraordinarily large, you may needs this step to increase RTP buffer size (as
follows):
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Instructions
Let's assume you have a HTTP video source that produces continuous Motion JPEG stream as
follows:
http://192.168.0.55/videostream
In this example, you need to perform following configuration steps in Camera Setup
5. Select HttpCamera as driver
6. Enter correct IP address
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GUI overview
Right-click on the desired channel and select "Video setup".
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Each parameter, except for its value, can also specify its effectiveness depending on the status of the
checkbox:
Effectiveness Description Icon
The value is not specified in current configuration set. The effective value
Unspecified
depend on the inherited configuration set.
The value is "cleared" by current configuration set, meaning the parameter
Clear
will not be in the effective parameter list.
Carefully planning of configuration set can make your system extremely versatile to deal with various
different situations. Especially note that the schedule config can associate to a specific configuration
set.
The meaning of each parameter can differ from various vendors of IP cameras. You can refer to the
description beside the parameter or look for vendor manuals for further information.
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Schedule configuration
GUI overview
Schedule Types
Scheduled configuration items has various types, including whole day, daily, weekly (detailed),
weekly (graphic), disabled. You may add multiple items.
Type Description
24x7 24 hours recording
Daily Daily fixed interval . For example: daily 08:00:00 to 21:30:00.
Resembles "Daily", but you may appoint to days within a week. For example:
Weekly (Detailed)
Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday 08:00:00 to21:30:00
Weekly (Graphic) Weekly schedule. Each slot is united an hour.
Interval Fixed interval, each starts with offset every X seconds, lasts Y seconds.
Disabled
Disable current schedule item.
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Horizontal axis is time, with hour as the unit. Vertical axis is day in a week. Click to change the
schedule status. Blue means enabled, white means disabled. Click any cell and drag will copy the
state of the clicked cells to others.
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You may specified a Video Parameters for each schedule configuration item . When that item is
activated during appropriate time, the specified parameter will be used. If you choose (Default) for the
value, schedule configuration will not affect video parameters.
When multiple schedule configuration item is in effect, the higher (in order) one will apply. To change
the priority of the items, use Higher and Lower buttons.
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Concepts
The permission control in "Genius Vision NVR" is group-based. The administrator configures
permissions for groups, and then assign the user to one or more groups. Permissions are not
assigned directly to the user, but rather associates to the user through groups.
Permission Types
Type Description
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Adding a user
GUI overview
Following dialog box will appear. Please click on Users tree node, it will expand automatically.
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If you want to create, delete, or duplicate a user, use the buttons on the top area.
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Adding a group
GUI overview
Following dialog box will appear. Click on the “User Groups” tree node and it will expand
automatically.
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You can check the privilege you wish to grant to the group.
If you want to create, delete, or duplicate a user group, use the buttons on the top area.
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Creating Maps
Select Add a new map in menu of New Obj. The map can be draged into User tree and be operated
as it is in system briefcase viewer. To view the map, drag it in a player. Not all players support maps.
See also
● Console overview (User tree、System briefcase viewer )
GUI overview
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Toolbar Functions
Icon Description Icon Description
Adding Items
Item Type Add Item Instruction
Drag a JPEG/BMP file in the map. Or drag a previously uploaded file from system
Bitmap
briefcase viewer.
Channel Drag channels from system briefcase viewer or user tree.
Assuming you want to add the link of map A in map B.
1. Open both map A and map B in players.
Hyperlink
2. Adjust the view of map A with zoom in/out.
3. In the toolbar of map A, drag Map hyperlink icon to map B.
IO port Drag IO ports from system briefcase viewer or user tree.
Arrange
Arrange the object's display order(Z order). "Back" objects covered by "front" objects are not visible.
Set orientation
Set orientation of the object to 0/90/180/270 degrees.
Lock object
Position/size/direction of a locked object cannot be changed. Its "property" dialog is still accessible if
available for that object type.
Properties
Invoke the property dialog to edit additional information such as description or stereotype(icon). Only
applies to hyperlink and IO port.
Remove object
Delete the map object.
Note: that only the map object is deleted. The entity the object represents to will not be deleted.
Mouse operations
Rotate/resize
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Move
Resize
Special operations
Channel operation
You can perform channel configuration through map by right-click on channel icon.
See also
● Setting video parameters
● Schedule configuration
IO port
You can perform I/O port operation (switch on/off, pulse, etc) through map by right-click on I/O port
icon.
See also
● IO Port
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External Maps
Select Add a new ext. map... in New Obj menu. The map can be draged into User tree and be
operated as it is in system briefcase viewer. To view the map, drag it in a player. Not all players
support external maps.
See also
● Console overview (User tree、System briefcase viewer )
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Toolbar Functions
Icon Description
Reloading the map from map server. Any unsaved changes will be
discarded.
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Adding Items
Item Type Instructions
Remove object
Object can only be removed in editing mode.
Special operations
Channel operation
See also
● Setting video parameters
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Trigger Policy
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Input Configuration
Item type Description
Channel trigger Triggered by channel events such as video loss, alarm, IO port... etc.
System trigger System events such as system start, system config change... etc.
Schedule trigger Triggered at specified time.
Output Configuration
Item type Description
Channel trigger
Value Description
on IO on
off IO off
vloss video loss
vreturn video recovered
disabled disabled
enabled enabled
record is/start recording
nrecord not/stop recording
alarm alarm triggered
alarm_progress alarm in progress
Schedule trigger
See also
● Schedule configuration
System trigger
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Value Description
Channel control
Field Description
Email
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Required parameters
Field Description
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Snapshot (Email)
If "Email.Format" is set to "snapshot" and one or more channel control exist in this policy, a snapshot
of the channels is attached to the email. Multiple channels will be composed as a single snapshot
automatically. The dimension and quality of the snapshot can be configured in Snapshot Settings tab.
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FTP
Required parameters
Field Description
Snapshot (FTP)
Snapshot is composed as it is in email.
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Overview
In the past, Genius Vision NVR client (console) can connect to only one remote server. All operation
are restricted to single remote server. With the new CMS architecture, users are allowed to connect
to multiple NVR servers simultaneously. Users are also allowed to perform live, playback, map,
configuration across multiple servers at the same time.
To understand how it works, just think of a NVR connection as a IP camera channel, with the
difference that a NVR connection expands to one or more IP cameras. Illustrated in the following
diagram:
With the new CMS architecture and careful project designing & planning, a fairly scalable system can
be constructed, as illustrated below:
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For middle to large scale system, managing user accounts and their passwords could also be a
challenging task. Therefore our CMS architecture offers "integrated security", meaning that the
administrator could opt to synchronize all account information to the primary server. This spares
administrator the effort to manage different user names of different servers.
How-tos
Here's a of list quick questions that might help you to find the information you need:
● How to add a NVR connection?
● How to view live and playback video in CMS system?
● How to use map on the CMS system?
● How to use integrated security, that synchronizes account information on all servers?
● Do I need additional license to use CMS?
● Can I connect to CMS server from a remote location?
● Do I need a special client or server program to enable use CMS??
● Can I connect to NVR of other types or vendors?
● How to configure user accounts in CMS?
● Can I connect to two NVRs that contains channels with the same name?
● Can I connect to yet another CMS (nestable CMS configuration)?
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● Does the network traffic of the child NVR go through the primary NVR server?
● How to configure child NVR channels?*
● What are the credentials used for a client to login to child NVR servers?
● How should I configure my child NVRs if I want to connect from public Internet?*
● What are the benefits of having a primary NVR server?
● Mob
Field Description
Channel name The channel name of the NVR connection. Please note this name shares the
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same name-space of IP camera channel names. It has to be unique from all
existing channel names.
Description Description of this connection.
Domain name Optionally supply the domain name of the host address.
IP address IP address of the host address.
Port TCP port of the server. Default is 3557 if not otherwisely changed.
Login information Login credentials to the NVR server.
Disabled checkbox Check to disable the connection.
Integrated security Check to enable integrated security, which will synchronize all account
checkbox information to the primary server.
Check this to use the same client-supplied password to connect to this NVR
Use primary connection, rather than the connection-supplied password. Checking this box
credential checkbox is generally considered more secure than non-checking.
(See What are the credentials used for a client to login to child NVR servers?)
See also
● Can I connect to two NVRs that contains channels with the same name?
● What are the credentials used for a client to login to child NVR servers?
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Each NVR connection is similar to one IP camera connection. Therefore for each NVR connection
you need additional one channel license. Only professional edition and intelligent edition qualifies the
use of CMS.
Let's use an example scenario in the following diagram. A primary NVR server connects to 2 child
NVR servers, which individually has two IP cameras connected. The small blue box highlights the
license requirements. This example requires 6-channel license installed in a way that Primary NVR
server has two channels, NVR server 1 has two channels, and NVR server 2 also has two channels.
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Genius Vision CMS server is no different than the NVR server. Genius Vision CMS client is also the
same as the NVR client. All operations, including maps, alarm processing, live & playback,
permission control, can all be performed from a remote location.
This offer great flexibility when planning a complex project. For more information, please refer to
What are the benefits of having a primary NVR server?.
CMS feature is tightly integrated into original NVR client/server architecture. No special software is
required to enable this feature.
You do, however, need to use a sufficiently new version of software that comes with the CMS feature,
both for client and server.
Only Genius Vision NVR Professional Edition or above is and will be supported in CMS architecture.
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Click on the "Users" node as highlighted in the picture above. All users and groups will expand
immediately.
You may then click on the specific user or group to modify their information. Or you can click "New
User" or "New User Group" to create new users or new groups. For more detailed information about
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permission control, please follow links below:
● Permission control overview
Can I connect to two NVRs that contains channels with the same name?
Yes but not recommended.
As the channel name must be unique throughout the domain (the entire domain that is reachable
from the primary NVR server), connecting two NVRs with some channels having the same name
causes name conflicts.
Our system has a way to automatically resolve name conflicts, in order to make the system to
continue functioning properly. However, such conflicts will render only one of the channels with the
same name usable. Thus all accessible channels keeps their names unique throughout the domain.
(This is how we call that one channel is obscured by another, rendering it inaccessible, due to
duplicated names).
Though the system is equipped with automatic resolution of name conflicts, configuring your system
with duplicated channel names is highly unrecommended. Such configuration could easily causes
user misunderstanding.
This can be illustrated in the following diagram. In this example there are two cameras both named
"Cam001". As a result of name conflict, the CMS will only be able to access one of them, the
"Cam001" inside "NVR server 1". The "Cam001" inside "NVR server 2" will not be accessible (hidden)
from user. (Unless the first Cam001 is removed from "NVR server 1", or the "NVR server 1" is
removed from the CMS)
Obsecured channel
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Our CMS architecture fully support nested configuration. (as illustrated below)
However such configuration is not recommended. As it would easily cause user misunderstanding.
From previous Q&A, we know that each channel name must be unique throughout the domain.
Configuring nested CMS structure could potentially extend the domain without the inner domain
knowing.
Does the network traffic of the child NVR go through the primary NVR
server?
No.
Network traffic, such as live or playback video, goes directly from child NVR into the client. They do
not consume any primary NVR server bandwidth.
From this point of understanding, the child NVR must be in a network domain that is directly
accessible by the client console, otherwise video could not be viewed.
Firstly, invoke "Cfg. System" dialog and switch to the "NVR Connections" node.
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Select the target child NVR (in this example, the child NVR called ALEE), and click "Edit".
After clicking "Edit" in previous screen, a second configuration dialog pops-up. This is the child NVR
configuration window. Now click to the "Channels" node. You are now able to perform all channel
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What are the credentials used for a client to login to child NVR servers?
There are two types of NVR connection, in the sense of the credentials used. To illustrate this, let's
suppose we have a CMS structure as follows:
The two child NVR connection is configured to connect as "admin", which usually has the highest
privillege. This kind of configuration is usually a necessary scenario because the primary NVR server
needs to have enough access to the child NVR to perform management tasks.
However when a user logon, there could be two kinds of scenarios, described in the following table
(notice the yellow highlighted differences) :
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Cons: Lower security
Because of the existence of the two possibilities, an option exist to let the administrator to choose the
type of connection when setting up a child NVR connection, the "Use primary credential" checkbox in
the NVR connectivity dialog:
When the checkbox is checked, the connection uses "Scenario 1: Use user supplied credentials",
when it's unchecked, "Scenario 2: Use connection supplied credentials" is used.
If you would like to configure your system to be publicly accessible, then all NVR nodes in your
system should have public IP addresses. This is because a client connects to child NVR directly,
rather than passing-through the primary NVR:
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Configuration
Note that IP cameras connected to child NVRs are allowed to configured to private IP, while still
accessible by remote client. This is because client accesses IP camera (live/playback, etc) through
NVR. This is what happens when client actually connects to the system:
Note in this example, NVR server 1 and 2 are configured as private IP address. This will make client
have trouble connecting to the IP camera inside:
However if a client is connecting from inside the private network, then this configuration is workable:
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What are the benefits of having a primary NVR server?
Genius Vision defines CMS architecture by requiring a primary NVR server. This architecture has
some advantages over those that does not require one:
● CMS can be remotely accessed: Metadata like maps or trigger policies can be stored in a
central location. User can logon to CMS from any remote computer and still be able to access
to the preconfigured map data with rich GUI.
● CMS run as a server monitor: This architecture treats the CMS server a daemon process
(without GUI) that runs in background. So even when no user is monitoring anything, the
daemon process can still be configured to monitor events by rules. This provides great
flexibilities to plan complex projects.
● Architectural uniformity: Such architecture is directly extendable from original client/server
architecture. Our system can scale from a single computer (self-fulfilled client/server) into a
large-scale multi-location enterprise system, all in the same architecture. Such architecture
reduces the possibility that some functions are used less than others because they are only
used in large-scale system, and thus lack proper testing.
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Overview
If you have a mobile phone that is compliant to 3GPP standard, then you can now use it to connect to
our NVR to see live video streaming.
If your system is properly configured to support 3G video streaming, you will firstly use your browser
to enter the URL to your NVR in the form:
● http://<ip_to_your_nvr>:8086/
Note: The "8086" is the default port number of the NVR built-in web server, the one that also serve
Internet Explorer. This can be changed from system configuration.
Step 1. Enter first page, list all channels available. Step 2. View video streaming.
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How-tos
Here's a of list quick questions that might help you to find the information you need:
● Is the 3G video streaming default enabled?
● How to enable 3G video streaming?
● Why can't I see 3G video streaming?
● How to change default web server port number?
● What are the frame-rate or image size of the 3G streaming video? Can they be changed?
3G video streaming involves potential video transcoding. It has to be enabled in the server before you
can really use it. Also, be informed that enabling this feature consumes certain resource (though not
much) on the server.
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If the 3G video streaming is successfully enabled, a small "3G" will appear beside the camera icon,
indicating 3G transcoding is activated:
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If you still can't see video streaming, please contact our technical support, with your mobile phone
model number (or device) available to us for testing and diagnosis.
See Also
● JPEG Streaming
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What are the frame-rate or image size of the 3G streaming video? Can
they be changed?
The image size and frame-rate is currently fixed at 320x240, 5 frames-per-second.
There is currently no GUI offered to change these settings. You can only choose to enable this
feature or not.
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Viewing live video
GUI Overview
Before viewing live video, a channel must be attached to a player. To attach a channel, drag it from
user tree(the red box above) to a player(the blue area above). Or double click to auto assign it to an
available player.
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To switch from playback to live video, click LIVE(the leftmost) in the toolbar. Or when the player is
focused, press ENTER on keyboard to view live video. Players can be focused by left mouse click on
it. You can tell if a player is focused by a green frame around it.
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Digital PTZ
Digital Pan-Tilt-Zoom
User can right-click context menu and select "Zoom-In" to drag a rectangular area to zoom-in.
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Step 3. Zoomed-in.
Under the zooming mode, user can hold mouse left button down to pan the zoomed area.
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User can also use mouse-wheel to easily zoom-in and zoom-out interested area quickly.
Rendering audio
GUI Overview
In the context menu of players, click "Render audio" to enable audio. To mute the channel, just click it
again. Or click on the speaker icon.
Concept
There are several methods to view playback video. You can:
1. Use the toolbar in player. It works just like the buttons on a CD/DVD player.
2. Use player control panel.
3. Use the timebar in player.
4. Use the storage report.
5. Hot keys
Console toolbar
Live view
Pause
Step backward
Step forward
Fast backward 2x/4x/8x
Backward playback
Forward playback
Fast forward 2x/4x/8x
Stop
Manual recording
Zoom in
Take snapshot
Open control panel
Toggle timebar
Synchronized playback
See also
● Using playback timeline
● Storage report
● Player Control Panel
Overview
A timeline is an integrated tool for both inspecting recorded data and navigating in video playback.
The timeline can be configured to show different information of recorded data. User can access the
desired data easily based on the information the timeline provides.
Using timeline
Before timeline can be operated, it must acquire window focus first. The user can use the mouse
wheel to zoom in or zoom out the timeline. The ruler indicates the scale.
See also
● Focused player
Basic operations
Drag on the ticks to navigate in the timeline(the cursor changes to four-way arrow before you can do
this). Use mouse wheel to zoom in/out. The ticks change automatically depends on the scale. You
can also hover on the timeline to see the exact time.
There're four types of ticks. The black thin lines are for seconds. Black thick ones are for minutes.
Red thin lines are for hours. Red boxes are for days.
You can also select an interval by mouse dragging in the trackbar area. The interval length will be
displayed.
Playback
You can double click on anywhere in trackbar area of the timeline to jump to that time point, or drag
the arrow.
Timeline modes
There are various modes in timeline to display different information. It can be set by right click on the
timeline.
Type GUI Example Description
Synchronized Playback
When synchronized playback is enabled, the play control of all players are synchronized. The video is
synchronized to the focused player when playback is requested.
The timestamp of all synchronized channels may not match exactly. Because it's impossible for every
channel to have available frame for any given time. This is obvious especially when the frame rate is
low.
Specify a date and time then click “Go to...”, or browse and click the node in treeview, to jump to
specific time.
PTZ (Mechanical)
Basic operation
If a channel support PTZ and is attached to a player, users can hold left mouse button on it to start
PTZ control. An yellow circle appears when the operation is valid. Hold mouse button and drag to the
direction you want the PTZ camera to turn.
An yellow arrow indicates the direction and the speed to turn the PTZ camera. The camera turns
faster when the arrow is longer. To stop the camera, simply release mouse button. To zoom in/out,
Presets
Before you can use presets, you must first configure PTZ configuration. To invoke the configuration
dialog, click PTZ config in player context menu. If there's no PTZ config item in the context menu,
check the video config to see if the proper PTZ type is selected. For more information, check Video
Configuration.
The description can be renamed by clicking on its description. Click OK when you done with
configuration.
After PTZ is configured, you can use context menu of player to set or recall presets. Or use keyboard
0-9 to recall when the player is focused.
Patrol
Patrol is a list of presets to be called in sequence. You can manage up to 10 patrols in the PTZ
dialog.
The interval and speed of patrol can be set with “Wait X seconds”.
To add a preset in the patrol, drag it from Preset list and drop it in Patrol. Preset in patrol can also be
dragged to change order.
<NOTE> PTZ functionality is limited by the actual specs and SDK support of the hardware. Not all
models support the functions mentioned above.
Add/edit folders
To add a new folder, right-click on blank area and click Add a new folder.
Taking snapshot
To take a snapshot, click the camera button in the player toolbar. A message will be popped if the
snapshot is taken.
Overview
A page is a set of players with its own layout settings and player state. Each page is configured
separately and doesn't affect other pages. Users can create multiple pages and configure them for
management purposes. For example, you can create a page named it "all channels". Switch its
layout to 4x4 and attach 16 channels in it. And then create another page named "map". Switch it to
1x1 and open a map. Then you can switch between the two pages easily without open multiple
windows or applications.
Editing pages
User can create, remove, and rename tabs in pattern tab control. Each pattern tab has its own layout
and state. You can also drag the tab to change the order of the pages.
Tour
Activating/stopping tour
Press F11 to toggle activating or stopping tour.
Storage report
GUI overview
By using the subnodes of the root nodes, you can easily explore recorded video in the scale of days,
hours, or minutes. The second column indicates the size accumulated of the item. The third is called
the activity indicaton value. If this value is larger than more activity has happened during that period.
Event viewing
At right panel you can view the related events to the selected period of time. If you wish to examine
the video of a specific event, you can either double-click the event to let an idle player to play it. Or
that you can drag it to a specific player to play it.
Resetting
After a long period of time of last query, or that the storage report stop refreshing latest data, you can
click the "Reset" button to retrieve updated information.
Event Search
To search event, click Search tab and the following page will appear.
Use Criteria Preset to do quick search or specify the following criterias manually...
Channel Search all or one specified channel.
Date Time Specify time span for the search. Both Start and End can be omitted.
Keywords Match keywords. Currently only Text Overlay and User support keyword search.
Longer than Limit result to entries with duration longer than X seconds. This is useful to filter
motion detection false positive.
Alarm Dialog
GUI Overview
Concept
Alarm dialog provides the information of an alarm instance, which may consist of one or more alarm
events. For each channel, there's always only one active instance. Any new alarm event is appended
to the active instance. And the instance is deactivated once it's acknowledged. Inactive instance can
no longer be modified, by user or by system. For active instance, user can change its state or post
comment.
Open Dialog
There are few ways to open the dialog:
Alarm Types
Type Description
Alarm State
State Description
Post Comment
User can only post comment of active or in-progress alarm instance.
User calculator
Storage Calculator
Users can input any 3 of the 4 variables. And the checked field will be calculated using the
parameters provided.
Optics Calculator
For any calculation, sensor size and horizontal resolution of the camera must be provided. Please
refer to the manufacturer's spec sheet of the camera. The user can provide 2 of the 3 variables; lens
focal length, object distance, and horizontal coverage. The checked field will be calculated using the
provided variables.
Sensor size
Horizontal coverage
XXX meters
You can input lens focal length and object distance to let the system calculate the coverage, or vice
versa.
Resolving power
Resolving power is a measurement of how many details can be seen in real world. The more the
resolving power is, the more easier to identify the object. It can be used as a reference to determine if
something can be identified or read. For example, about 100 lpm (horizontally) minimal is required to
read car license plates. However, the value is just for reference as there are other factors affecting
image quality as well. For example, weather, shutter speed, and focusing.
Diagram Explained
Legend Description
Viewing logs
GUI Overview
To make it easier to read, click on the tab to show certain types of items only.
See also
● Console overview (System Briefcase Viewer)
GUI overview
Display Settings
Aspect Mode
The video is not always fit perfectly in the player. It may be too wide or too tall. The player will display
the video depends on this setting.
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Maintain aspect
Stretch video
Processor Accelerating
Enable Intel MMX, SSE, and SSE2 processor accelerating functions. 3 modes are available. Nearest
neighbor has best performance and Cubic offers best graphics quality.
Linear Cubic
Compatible mode
Disable all graphics accelerating to solve display problems. The following are solutions for possible
display problems. If the solution doesn't work, use Compatible mode.
Problem Recommended action
Snapshot/Export Settings
Currently only JPEG is supported.
Miscellaneous
Map
Grouped channels
Not-grouped
Alarm
Alarm Sound
Play sound upon alarm.
Exporting footage
Using timeline
When a time interval is selected in timeline, export footage dialog can be invoked in its context menu
to export the selected time interval.
The dialog
See also
● AVI-Export Supporting Information
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Hotkeys
Enable hotkeys
To enable hotkeys, you must first focus on a player. To do so, left click on the player you want to
operate.
See also
● Focused player
A detailed list can be found in System Configuration dialog, Hotkey List tab.
Basic operations
Key Function
PTZ operations
Key Function
1-9, 0 Recall preset
Ctrl + 1-9, 0 Set preset
Ctrl + ←→↑↓ Pan, tilt
Ctrl + PageUp Zoom in
Ctrl + PageDown Zoom out
Ctrl + Home Focus far
Ctrl + End Focus near
Synopsis
Genius Vision NVR provides a built-in web server to provide authorized and licensed remote user to
view live video through Internet Explorer.
Default built-in web server listen port is 8086. If you configure the listen port to zero ("0"), the web
server will be turned off.
Broadcasting integration
When a vendor is properly licensed with GvLiveX SDK (by signing the "SDK Licensing Terms"
Memory Watchdog
To enable memory watchdog, set a proper value to "Limit Memory Use" box. This value defines the
maximum engine process usage. If the engine process reaches this limit, it will automatically restart.
This value should be configured carefully according to the actual memory usage of your engine
process (displayed below the Limit Memory Use value). Three times of average memory usage may
be appropriate. For example, if your engine process uses 200MB in average, then you can set a
value of 600MB. (By configuration 600MB of Limit Memory Use value, you instruct the memory
watchdog to automatically restart the engine when memory usage reaches 600MB.)
IO Port
GUI Overview
To access IO ports, expand a channel node in User Tree. Gray nodes are inactive ports. Red ones
are active input. Green ones are active output. If a node is unexpandable, it doesn't support IO ports
or it's not configured properly.
See also
● Console overview
Control
To control IO ports, right click on it to access the menu. Input ports cannot be controlled in the NVR
system. They are connected to physical input devices such as switches, sensors... etc.
Pulse is a sequence of repeated on/off send to the port. Literally the controlled device will blink for
few seconds. The final state is off.
IO Ports in Maps
The description and icon can be edited in the property dialog. The change is only applied to the
selected map item, not every item/node representing that port.
Concept
Player control panel is an integrated controller to control the currently focused player. Press F8 in the
player to open the player control panel.
For more information about player and focused player, see also
● Viewing live video
● Synchronized playback
Combobox Explained
Visual layer selection Object creation drop-down menu
Buttons Explained
Pattern-save Functions
Action Description
Pattern Set
Saved pattern sets are added to the pattern set list in the local console. Click any pattern set to load.
Current pattern layout will be overwritten.
If Reset pattern set on startup is enabled in console setting, the first in frequently-used layout is
always loaded when local console is invoked.
Player
Title
Displays the name and description of attached channel/map. The background color indicates the
status.
Outlook Description
Nothing is attached
Map is loaded
OSD
Display the video time, resolution, and frame rate. Depends on OSD setting selected.
See also
● Player Control Panel
● Viewing playback video
● Taking snapshot
Timebar
See also
● Viewing playback video
● Using playback timeline
Status indicator
Video streaming
Recording
Accessing disk
Audio Output: Activate but not transmitting (no signal from microphone or not loud enough)
Watermark: Vandalized
Watermark: Authentic
(some indicators are hidden if the function is not available)
Indicator explained:
Intelligent video Render audio Accessing disk Recording Video streaming
See also
● Rendering audio
● Activating Intelligent Detection
Activating/Deactivating Detection
If you wish to start intelligent detection, you need to activate the detection mechanism in addition to
proper configuration. This step is necessary since detection consumes client CPU resource.
Region Configuration
Select Video Analytics Setup tab in Camera Setup dialog.
Function Object
Overview
Function Object is a abstract object defines a IVS function. It contains parameters and can be
associated with regions to define ROI or object size. The following function objects are available in
the system:
● Motion detection (hardware)
● Software motion detection
● Object tracking
Define Regions
Drag the endpoint of Function Object to define regions as extra parameter. Available regions
depends on the type of the Function Object.
A tag will be displayed on the connection to indicate what the region is used for the Function Object.
In this case, it’s defined as ROI (region of interest).
Specificity The ability to ignore unwanted event in real world, i.e., shadow, lighting,
leaves...
False positive The system report an event but there’s actually no event in real world.
False negative A real world event occurs but the system does not report it.
Background The image that represents the scene. In IVS system it’s a statistical model
beyond human understanding.
Artifacts Compression generated glitches in video. It’s more severe with higher
compression rate (lower bit rate).
MPEG based MPEG based codecs include MPEG4 and H.264. Image quality fluctuates in
codec these codecs and artifacts accumulate over time until next I-Frame. This is a
challenge for intelligent detection, especially when GOP size is very large, or
bit rate is very low.
Definition
“Motion detection” function detects pixel changes in live video. At certain level of accumulated pixel
changes, motion are reported. The generic algorithm used to perform motion detection does not
distinguish foreground from background, thus it cannot segment object from other objects.
Configuration
See also
● Region Configuration
Parameters of S-Motion
“S-Motion” stands for “software based motion detection” and is implemented Genius Vision NVR
software.
Threshold
Pixel will be considered being changed if the value difference between video frames exceed this
threshold. The higher the threshold, the lower the sensitivity is.
Hysteresis
Hysteresis is the ability to accumulate states in the past few seconds. This function is to fight video
glitch which lasts only 1 or 2 frames, in a timespan of milliseconds. Longer hysteresis decreases
sensitivity and increases specificity. This function is especially useful for MPEG (H.264 included)
based codec, which generates artifacts over time before next P frame.
Note:
1. S-motion must be accompanied by to Activating Intelligent Detection work properly.
2. Hardware-based motion detection requires both hardware and software support. Not all models of
cameras are supported.
Object Tracking
Definition
Object tracking analyzes video sequence, isolates background (still objects) and foreground (moving
objects), and then further track foreground objects to perform object trail tracking, directional counting,
standing still detection (loitering), missing object, and foreign object detection.
Configuration
An example of object tracking configuration is as follows:
● If ObjSz is not specified, the system will assign a default object size automatically.
● If ROI is not specified, the entire video screen will be used as detection area.
Method
Primary method (algorithm) used to perform object tracking. This parameter affects CPU and memory
usage. Also potentially different methods perform differently on different scene.
Value Description
Adaptative
The rate of learning background. When objects hold still for a long time, they will be treated as part of
the background. This parameter affects how fast a still object to be blend in background. When still
object detection is a less requirement, configure this parameter to a higher value to increase
Sensitivity
Sensitivity to differentiate foreground and background pixels. Higher sensitivity means better
detection rate, but also more false positive.
AutoReset
Auto reset background every X minutes. In environments with inconsistent lighting, auto reset
background periodically may improve tracking and reduce false positive.
BufferMode
The internal image buffer size used to perform computer vision algorithms. Lower size consumes less
memory but may lose track of small objects.
Fps
Detection frame per second. This parameter affects the accuracy and the CPU resource usage.
Value Description
TrackDuration
Length of tracked object trail. This parameter affects tripwire counting and still object detection.
Value Description
TripwireAlarm
Trigger alarm when tripwire is crossed.
Predict
When lost track, use the last position and speed of the object to predict its position in the following
frames. This improves detection rate but generates more false positive.
Filter
The object shown above jumps and is unlikely to be a real object. It's actually caused by the shadow
and sunlight change. High filter setting decreases false positive.
NormalizeHist
Normalize histogram to enhance image contrast, thus improves detection rate. For image with very
low contrast, this may enhance noise instead.
ShiftHist
Shift histogram to compensate lighting change. This is highly recommended for outdoor detection.
Same scenario with different lighting. Before the computer learns the new background, almost the
entire scene is a very big object.
NormalizeHist and ShiftHist are especially useful for cameras with unstable metering system or
inconsistent exposure.
Parameters (Missing/Foreign)
TimeMissing
Fire alarm if object is missing from pre-configured region after specified interval.
TimeForeign
Fire alarm if object is stayed in pre-configured region after specified interval.
From table above, it would appear that there is not a "best" between client-side or server-side
detection architecture. It's simply a architectural judgment call. For flexibility, starting from branch b50,
both server-side and client-side detection are supported. This allows wider options for user to
configure the system to their actual need.
Video Analytics
There are 3 ways to do video analytics: by full-function player, matrix viewer, or server.
To turn on/off video analytics, configure it in Local Console Config dialog, under category Display
Settings.
Player or Matrix Viewer video analytics can be done at remote clients; hence shares server loading.
Detect by Server
Server video analytics is indicated by the orange EYE-BALL on channel icon. There's no video
rendering, and admin access is required to turn it off. So it's the most efficient and secured way to do
video analytics.
When there are more than one video analytics instance, only first one is selected as final result for
possible actions. The choice of detection instance is by first-in-first-out (FIFO) order.
A Software Motion function object will be created by default. User can define additional region of
interest or start playback right away to search entire scene. Search can be forward or backward,
1x/2x/4x or more. But generally it lost accuracy beyond 8x, especially for fast moving objects like
automobiles.
Search results will be saved as bookmarks. Click the bookmark and video will be displayed in
Bookmark Preview. Right click on bookmark to change description or delete it.
Smart Search support all intelligent detection functions. See also Region Configuration.
Calibration may be required. To calibrate, focus the player and press F8 to bring up player control
panel. Create a “Panorama” function object.
To calibrate image circle, drag the endpoint and define a Image Circle region.
Carefully match the circle with the outline of panorama image. Expansion or contraction may be
needed to get optimal result, as lens optics design varies. Click Save in player control panel to apply
the setting.
Concept
Some non-IE web browsers do not support ActiveX components provided by the NVR software. In
such cases, online video or images can not be accessed; JPEG image format, on the other hand, is
the world's most widely used image format. Our system supports JPEG online viewing for most
browsers including those on the mobile phones. Some extra steps need to be taken to enable this
feature.
Introduction
Suppose your NVR is 192.168.0.124, this URL http://192.168.0.124:8086/mjpeg/sdk.html will lead
you into the following page (as illustrated in picture below). This page is a tool to generate single URL
to a JPEG image or more sophisticated iFrame codes to be embedded in 3rd party web pages, or to
generate QR code to be used with mobile device.
Single JPEG
Let's go back to the tool page, Camera "aaa" will appear in the list
The link under the Single JPEG is a single JPEG image. Its URL can be referenced in a web page
using <IMG> tag.
The link under the JPEG Live Streaming is real-time video contained in a predefined web page with
JavaScript to update the image automatically.
Multiple View
Connect to this URL to view all JPEG streams...
http://<ip_address>:<port>/mjpeg/multiview.html
It will be scaled automatically to fit in browser window.
Click Generate Codes to generate HTML codes to be copied and pasted in web page using text
editor or HTML editor. You need basic knowledge about HTML, web server, and public IP address to
make this work. You may need to configure network switch and router properly or image cannot be
accessed through internet. Consult your network administrator for more information.
The QR code cannot be referenced directly in HTML. You have to take screenshot and save as a
image file on your web server.
Overview
Sometimes incorrect system configuration or corrupted environment can cause system unable to start.
Under this circumstance, users cannot even enter the system and disable the problematic part of
function so the system becomes a deadlock state. Safe Mode can come in handy to deal this kind of
situation.
Options explained:
Option Description
User demand When starting engine, let “Scroll Lock” stay on, and Ctrl+Alt to enable
SafeMode.
Availability
SafeMode is a relatively new function and only available since following versions:
● b70: Version 715.
Backup/Restore License
Note: This function is available since version 769.
Overview
Sometimes if the whole system is overwritten for some reason (reinstallation of the OS) or
accidentally purges the entire software installation, the license information could be gone
permanently. To prevent this from happening, you need to backup the license and restore it when
needed.
Note: that you can only restore license to the same system (OS+computer hardware). Restoring to
different system will render the license useless.
To use license import/export, select ‘Export/Import installed licenses’ and click Next..
Export (Backup)
Input a filename and click Save..
.
A message is displayed if license is exported successfully.
And Export button will be replaced with ‘Browse In Folder’. Click to browse the file in Windows file
manager.
Import (Restore)
Select exported file and click Open.
If there’s license already installed, a confirmation dialog is displayed. Click yes to proceed importing
.
License manager has to be restarted to see imported license